Three-Dimensional Models of Marine and Estuarine Dynamics

J.C.J. Nihoul, B.M. Jamart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1987
• Print ISBN:
  9780444427946
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080870830
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

These proceedings represent the most recent and complete state of the art review of three-dimensional models of the modern generation for the study of marine hydrodynamics and management of the marine system. The book is well illustrated by application to well-documented case studies.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Three-Dimensional Models of Marine and Estuarine Dynamics
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• List of Participants
• CHAPTER 1. PERSPECTIVE IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELLING OF THE MARINE SYSTEM
• CHAPTER 2. ON MODELING THREE-DIMENSIONAL ESTUARINE AND MARINE HYDRODYNAMICS
• CHAPTER 3. CIRCULATION MODELLING USING ORTHOGONAL CURVILINEAR COORDINATES
• CHAPTER 4. PREDICTING OPEN OCEAN CURRENTS, FRONTS AND EDDIES
• CHAPTER 5. PREPARATION OF ESTUARY AND MARINE MODEL EQUATIONS BY GENERALIZED FILTERING METHODS
• CHAPTER 6. A LIMITED AREA MODEL FOR THE GULF STREAM REGION
• CHAPTER 7. STUDY OF TRANSPORT FLUCTUATIONS AND MEANDERING OF THE FLORIDA CURRENT USING AN ISOPYCNIC COORDINATE NUMERICAL MODEL
• CHAPTER 8. DYNAMICS OF AGULHAS RETROFLECTION AND RING FORMATION IN A QUASI- ISOPYCNIC COORDINATE NUMERICAL MODEL
• CHAPTER 9. MODELLING OF MESOSCALE OCEANIC INSTABILITY PROCESSES
• CHAPTER 10. AN EDDY-RESOLVING MODEL FOR RIVER PLUME FRONTS
• CHAPTER 11. A FINITE DIFFERENCE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL FOR SHELF SEAS AND ITS APPLICATION TO LOW FREQUENCY VARIABILITY ON THE NORTH EUROPEAN SHELF
• CHAPTER 12. A THREE DIMENSIONAL CIRCULATION MODEL OF THE SOUTH CHINA SEA
• CHAPTER 13. THE INFLUENCE OF BOUNDARY CONDITIONS ON THE CIRCULATION IN THE GREENLAND-NORWEGIAN SEA. A NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION
• CHAPTER 14. A THREE DIMENSIONAL BAROCLINIC MODEL OF THE WESTERN BALTIC
• CHAPTER 15. A STUDY OF VARIOUS OPEN BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR WIND-FORCED BAROTROPIC NUMERICAL OCEAN MODELS
• CHAPTER 16. COASTAL CURRENTS, INTERNAL WAVE COLLAPSES AND TURBULENCE IN THE STRAIT OF MESSINA ZONE
• CHAPTER 17. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR THE STUDY OF STEADY AND NON-STEADY NATURAL FLOWS
• CHAPTER 18. REAL AND SPURIOUS BOUNDARY LAYER EFFECTS IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICAL MODELS
• CHAPTER 19. A TROPHIC-DIFFUSION 3D MODEL OF THE VENICE LAGOON
• CHAPTER 20. THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTINENTAL SHELF HYDRODYNAMICS MODEL INCLUDING WAVE CURRENT INTERACTION
• CHAPTER 21. THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL OF CURRENTS IN THE BAY OF SEINE
• CHAPTER 22. TIDAL STREAMS IN SHALLOW WATER
• CHAPTER 23. MODELLING AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE RESIDUAL CURRENT OFF SOUTHWEST NOVA SCOTIA
• CHAPTER 24. A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WEAKLY NONLINEAR MODEL OF TIDE-INDUCED LAGRANGIAN RESIDUAL CURRENT AND MASS-TRANSPORT, WITH AN APPLICATION TO THE BOHAI SEA
• CHAPTER 25. THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL FOR THERMAL IMPACT STUDIES
• CHAPTER 26. ESTIMATION OF STORM-GENERATED CURRENTS
• CHAPTER 27. A COUPLED 2-D/3-D MODELLING SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATION OF TIDAL AND WIND-INDUCED CURRENTS
• CHAPTER 28. A HIGH RESOLUTION 3D MODEL SYSTEM FOR BAROCLINIC ESTUARINE DYNAMICS AND PASSIVE POLLUTANT DISPERSION
• CHAPTER 29. A THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL OF SEMI-DIURNAL TIDES ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL SHELF
• CHAPTER 30. A GENERAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL EDDY-RESOLVING MODEL FOR STRATIFIED SEAS
• CHAPTER 31. A 3-D MODEL OF THE SEVERN ESTUARY
• CHAPTER 32. THE VARIATIONAL INVERSE METHOD REVISITED (Abstract only)
• CHAPTER 33. THE BRANCHING OF THE GULF STREAM REVISITED USING THE VARIATIONAL INVERSE METHOD (Abstract only)
• CHAPTER 34. ABOUT A DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL HYDROGRAPHIC DATA IN THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC (Abstract only)